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Fillers are playing an increasingly important role in polymer applications,
a trend that will increase with the rise in the cost of oil and hence
polymer feedstocks. Increasingly though, fillers are seen as high
performance additives, not just cost lowering diluents, and this
is the focus of Rapra’s third 2-day international conference
on high performance fillers.

This review provides a clear overview of the state-of-the-art of
flame retardancy for plastics. It highlights the new developments
and the potential problems with legislation, together with the benefits
to end users of protection from fire hazards.

This review is accompanied by around 400 abstracts compiled from
the Polymer Library, to facilitate further reading on this subject.
A subject index and a company index are included.

The Practical Guide begins with general background to the polyethylene family,
with price, production and market share information. It describes the basic
types of polyethylene including virgin & filled polyethylene, copolymers,
block and graft polymers and composites, and reviews the types of additives
used in polyethylene.Polyethylenes offer a wide range of properties due to
differences in structure and molecular weight, and the Practical Guide gives
the low down on the properties, including, amongst others, rheological, mechanical,
chemical, thermal, and electrical properties.

The Practical Guide to Polyethylene is an indispensable
resource for everyone working with this material.

Rapra's Practical Guide to PVC is packed with information for everyone working
with PVC. It provides comprehensive background on the resins and additives,
their properties and processing characteristics, as well as discussion of product
design and development issues.

This book will be of interest to raw materials
suppliers and processors or end-users of PVC, as well as anyone
with a general interest in this versatile material.

Now in its ninth year, this international conference is firmly established
as Europe’s premier event for the thermoplastic elastomers
industry. These proceedings focus on the latest TPE materials, performance,
processing and applications.

This conference saw presentations from all parts of the electronics
industry’s materials supply chain, from raw materials to finished
products and offered an opportunity to learn more about both traditional
and new polymer materials, their markets, manufacturing processes
and applications. It also covered the impact of legislation, the
need to recycle and other polymer related challenges and opportunities
for the industry.